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Come help Art Sign the BeltLine Saturday at Eyedrum
At noon this Saturday, February 20, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery will be hosting a WonderRoot-sponsored painting party, Art Sign the BeltLine 2.0. The goal is to create 216 works of art to be placed around town at various BeltLine sites and public right-of-way crossings. If this strikes you as a lofty goal, let... »
In the box with Chung “Fanky” Chak
Chung “Fanky” Chak’s large-scale digital photo collages of crowded metropolises will open tomorrow night from 6PM-9PM at Eyedrum with an artist talk beforehand at 5PM. Each work in The Boxes Project includes hundreds to thousands of window pictures taken from different cities around the world. The resulting collections highlight stereotypes and the personality we... »
2D Tweet at Eyedrum
There’s no need to ever take another picture of a house, a dog, or a sunset. If you open up a magazine or an old newspaper, or if you do an image search online, you will find plenty of what you need. This is a symptom of our age: We hastily cut and... »
To Do List
While murmurs from Le Flash continue, another week of ACP rolls forward. »
To Do List
Atlanta Celebrates Photography gets up to speed this weekend, starting with what looks like a fantastic exhibit at Barbara Archer Gallery. »
Eyedrum Art Auction Benefit This Friday
As a response to its financial crisis, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery will hold an art auction benefit this Friday, August 14, from 7-10PM. Funds raised at the benefit will go directly toward operating costs and to help sustain programming at Eyedrum. »
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As one of the longest seeming weeks in my personal history comes to a close, the weekend brings promise of tube meat wrapped in deep fried dough, summer homes, and guerrilla art. So, everyone, make your gallery stops Friday, grab a corndog and music on Saturday, and finish it off by painting some signs... »
Danny Paulete – Climber’s Dream
Art changes a person. It has a cultish effect on those who decide to delve into and explore its rejuvenating powers. It’s a personal practice that because of its history and its intrinsic cathartic representative nature allows the interlocutor (artist) to feel as if he/she is transmitting the untransmittable: the intangible, pre-linguistic experience of... »
To Do List
If every week’s To Do List has a theme, then this week’s is community. Between site specific performance art, festivals galore, and anniversary parties you should have no trouble relishing in the awesomeness that summer in Atlanta has to offer. »
Why Don’t Artists and Arts Festivals Mix?
A very simple, but serious question for practicing artists: Isn’t it strange that arts festivals are some of the least hospitable places for career artists? It seems to be the prevailing wisdom around town that showing on the festival circuit is not a good idea, or that it isn’t practical, due to obligations of... »
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